{"id":87,"date":"2011-04-04T15:34:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T23:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.155.6.59\/cascadeheights-library\/?p=87"},"modified":"2011-04-04T15:34:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T23:34:22","slug":"apr-4-apr-8-read-a-louds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/cascadeheights-library\/2011\/04\/04\/apr-4-apr-8-read-a-louds\/","title":{"rendered":"Apr 4 &#8211; Apr 8 Read-a-Louds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do boogers and slime catch your attention? Well then I have the perfect book for you! This week we&#8217;ll be reading <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardwasapicker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Was A Picker<\/a><\/em> by Carolyn Beck. Richard picks his nose constantly, and one day, he gets his finger stuck! Richard turns into a giant booger-ball! How does he get himself out of this mess? You&#8217;ll have to wait and see!<\/p>\n<p>For the grade 7&#8217;s this week, we will be reading <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anansi.ca\/gw_titles.cfm?pub_subid=1105\" target=\"_blank\">Good Night, Commander<\/a><\/em> by Ahmad Akbarpour, translated from Farsi. It is a sombre tale from Iran, set during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988). It tells of an Iranian child dealing with the loss of his mother, and a new physical handicap; he lost his leg in the war, presumably due to a land mine. He acts out a battle scene in his bedroom with his toy soldiers, while showing the picture of his mother that he is brave and will avenge her death. It is a powerful story about innocent people caught in a war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do boogers and slime catch your attention? Well then I have the perfect book for you! This week we&#8217;ll be reading Richard Was A Picker by Carolyn Beck. Richard picks his nose constantly, and one day, he gets his finger &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/cascadeheights-library\/2011\/04\/04\/apr-4-apr-8-read-a-louds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[25,26,28,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/cascadeheights-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/cascadeheights-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/cascadeheights-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/cascadeheights-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/cascadeheights-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/cascadeheights-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/cascadeheights-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/cascadeheights-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/cascadeheights-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}